armor-clad

American  

[ahr-mer-klad] / ˈɑr mərˌklæd /

adjective

1. covered with armor.

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Etymology

Origin of armor-clad

First recorded in 1860–65; armor + clad ¹

Example Sentences

Images of armor-clad police charging into crowds, swinging clubs or randomly arresting people in the street, have drawn condemnation from both the United Nations and the European Union’s human rights watchdog.

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As the group approached the Louvre, participants were ambushed by phalanxes of armor-clad riot officers who had hidden near the colonnades of the nearby Comédie Française.

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But Mr. Mélenchon quickly disappeared after a brief face-off with lines of armor-clad riot police officers blocking the bridge.

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Russell Engelman, a paleontologist pursuing his Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University, recently compared the proportions of Dunkleosteus’s armor-clad head to the skull sizes of hundreds of living and fossil fish.

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And they have turned Mr. Reddé into a leading character of French demonstrations, a kind of “Where’s Waldo?” who invariably appears alongside unionists blowing foghorns and battalions of armor-clad riot police.

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